Can I add a Service Reference with netTcpBinding in WCF?

Question

Is it possible to add a service reference in visual studio, which generates the local proxy class to call the WCF service when using the netTcpBinding?

As I understood it, the service reference method requires a WSDL to be exposed by the service, which is only supported by the http bindings no?

Perhaps, could I add the service reference locally in development, but then switch the configuration to use nettcp at runtime in production?

The reason I am asking is because I am hosting in a windows service (server 2003, so no WAS, and can't use IIS). And we are unable to change the permissions to do the HTTP namespace reservation ... so we can't use the HTTP bindings. NetTcp works, but in this specific case the object graph we're passing back and forth involves objects generated in the service by an EDMX model ... so we can't share it in a contract assembly.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Simply add a binding using mexTcpBinding.